Laravel – Correct way to catch cURL exceception

I am building a simple REST API package using cURL and would like to catch an error and then return a view. I am able to throw an error if I dd($e) but if I try and return a view it just continues with the code after the catch function. Shouldn’t PHP kill the process and just go to the login view?

try{    
    $response = Http::timeout(2)->asForm()->post('https://' . $this->ip_address, [
        'username' => $this->username,
        'password' => $this->password
    ]);

} catch(IlluminateHttpClientConnectionException $e) {
    return view('auth.login');
}

If I get a cURL timeout exception I just want to go back to the login page for now. If I put in a bogus IP address obviously it will timeout after 2 seconds, which is what I am testing.

Using Laravel Http client, how can I catch that error and display the auth login view?

Answer

Unlike Guzzle, Laravel’s HttpClient does not throw errors if the response is > 400.

You should simply use an if statement to check the response status code. See: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/http-client#error-handling

You can call use the following checks:

// Determine if the status code is >= 200 and < 300...
$response->successful();

// Determine if the status code is >= 400...
$response->failed();

// Determine if the response has a 400 level status code...
$response->clientError();

// Determine if the response has a 500 level status code...
$response->serverError();

So in your case you can simply do something like this:

$response = Http::timeout(2)->asForm()->post('https://' . $this->ip_address, [
    'username' => $this->username,
    'password' => $this->password
]);

if ($response->failed()) {
    return view('your-view')->with([
        'message' => 'Failed.',
    ]);
}